Important Dinner for Women guests (from left): Wendi Deng, Mrs Brown, Queen Rania of Jordon, Nicole Kidman, Ethiopian model Liya Kebede and Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi gather at New York restaurant Cipriani’sRedTracker Queen Rania of Jordan, Wendi Murdoch and Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi hosted 300 of the richest and most powerful women at Cipriani restaurant in New York last night, to throw the spotlight on the world’s poor and deprived women.

The dinner — called Important Dinner for Women — highlighted the Millennium Development Goal of reducing death from childbirth by 75 percent by 2015, which would saves 10 million lives.

British First Lady Sarah Brown gave the keynote address on maternal mortality, noting, “When a mother survives, a lot survives with her, and when women come together, they are an unstoppable force for change.”

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